The Golden Dawn’s attributions…
by Jean-Michel David The Golden Dawn’s system of understanding Tarot’s Atouts (Major Arcana) is through a specific positioning of these upon the Tree of Life (and of these, the Kircher version of the...
View ArticleThe Tarot and the Kabbalah, the Ancient Mesopotamians and the Sufist
by Nicholas Swift an extract from Mirror of the Free www.vaxxine.com/mirrorofthefree Authors of books on the Tarot cards commonly assert that their true origin is unknown. One sometimes gets the...
View ArticleThe Fool, Alef and Orion
by Stephen John Mangan [Kwaw] The first image is detail of Ninurta/Orion standing next to a Lion [sacred animal of Innana and symbol of Sirius], 2nd image the complete picture from the ancient Sumerian...
View ArticleKabbalistic Tarot Hebraic Wisdom in the Major and Minor Arcana
by Dovid Krafchow …being an introduction to the ancient kabbalistic origins and meanings of the tarot __________ Newsletter foreword by Jean-Michel David When I first came across Dovid Krafchow’s book,...
View ArticleInquiries into Tarot & on divination by means of tarot cards (Part 1)
by M. C. de M*** trans. by Jean-Michel David For this translation, I was very much aided by the various (often provisional) translations of Mary Greer and Jack Meier, Jess Karlin, Donald Tyson and...
View ArticleTarot Trumps & the Tree of Life
a personal perspective by Jean-Michel David In two previous Newsletters, I have discussed some aspects relevant here. The first of these was for issue 22, titled ‘Kabalah and Tarot‘, in which I looked...
View ArticleTree of Life on the Tarot in the Four Worlds
Mary Greer First published on Mary’s blog: marygreer.wordpress.com I am delighted to provide this previously unpublished text, which is from a hand-copied manuscript of Sub Spe [John Brodie Innes] I...
View ArticleTarot Trumps and Hebrew Letters:variety and divergence
Jean-Michel David www.fourhares.com In looking through various decks and reading across a reasonably broad variety of books on tarot, divergent claims are made for trumps and various correlations. One...
View ArticleChrist, the World and Sin
Jean-Michel David www.fourhares.com Unless living in continental Europe and knowing what to look for and where, it is only since the nineteen-eighties that images from older decks became easily...
View ArticleOn Paneurythmy and Tarot
ShareOn Paneurhythmy as Movement Reflective of Tarot on the Tree of Life Jean-Michel David – www.fourhares.com – paneurythmy Peter Deunov and Paneurhythmy During the first half of the 20th century,...
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